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Richard Desmond Quotes

When I was 13, I forged my date of birth so that I could get a Saturday job at Woolworth's, earning £1 3s 6d for the day. But my real ambition was to do something in the music world - or, at least, close to it.

Richard Desmond

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: british
Birth: December 8, 1951

Topics

Music Day Job Ambition World Birth

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

John Dingell

Alone Support I Can Go Want Going

We would not have this catastrophe of Obamacare if it were not for Jon Tester.

Matt Rosendale

Would Obamacare Were Catastrophe Jon

In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

Mia Kirshner

Experience My Own Own Film Heavy

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Humor Best People Rich Think Teeth

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

Mary Cheney

Office Vice Where Get Been Just

Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.

Martin Parr

Technology Me Think You Perfect Say

I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet are happy to benefit from the products of the methodology that they otherwise deny.

Liz Williams

Science History Past Happy Evidence

I'm often in Venice in November and December, when it's foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights in the churches make the place feel both Christmassy and melancholic.

Juergen Teller

Feel Place Lights Venice December

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.

Dick Wolf

Change Home Night Environment You

I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Now Want Will My Own Never Own

The World Cup is as big as it gets.

Christian Pulisic

World Big Cup World Cup Gets

In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social hierarchy than I had ever heard stateside.

Alissa Quart

School Person More Awareness Saw